Fallout: New Vegas project director, J.E. Sawyer, has released his own personal mod for the game. Sawyer headed up development on Fallout: New Vegas as well as the Honest Heart DLC. The mod requires the latest DLC to work, and Sawyer developed it to use for his own personal play-through of the game.
Mod notes
- Max level with all DLCs installed is 35.
- XP rate is halved.
- Base player health is quartered and level-gained health is reduced by 25%.
- Base Carry Weight from 150 to 50 (related perks/things have also been adjusted).
- Energy Weapon ammo weighs less than its nearest equivalent Guns ammo.
- Energy Weapon durability is in the same ballpark as Guns durability.
- Medium Armor has a small amount of DR proportional to its DT.
- Heavy Armor has even more DR proportional to its DT.
- Power Armor does not require a perk, but if you have the perk, the weight of the armor is essentially negated.
- Karma/Alignment values adjusted all over.
- H2O/FOD/SLP rates doubled, but the first threshold is moved from 200 to 400 (statuses roll over ever 150 after).
- Water and Food drop rates on NPCs is dramatically lower. It is difficult to stay out of Dehydration/Starvation by looting enemies.
- Water/Nuka-Cola/Sunset Sarsaparilla heal much less, but now all restore H2O (alcohols will as well, but at lowered values).
- Default Stimpaks are uncommon. A new variant, Stimpak, Expired is the default. It is not that great.
- The player’s Workbench recipe now makes Stimpak, Homemade. It is better than Expired, worse than default Stimpaks, and has the PE penalty from Healing Powder.
- All Stimpaks have weight.
- Pre-Order items have been adjusted to be more well-balanced and not worth that much if you rush to Chet’s to trade them in.
- A bunch of fixes I couldn’t make during development because of load order conflicts, time, etc. E.g.: Automatic Rifle spread re-adjustment, putting the Police Pistol on the Cowboy List, Bozar on Grunt, Junk Rounds are now actual ammo variants you can make, etc.
- Some other stuff.
You can grab the mod here.
